Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 3 ( ANI ): A major train mishap was averted in Lucknow on Sunday after
fishplates of a railway track were found missing near Daliganj railway station.
The
fishplates, and the products of the other 39 companies, will be featured on an interactive online map to which MPs across the country will be challenged to add their own constituencies' manufacturing successes.
Now, these 3,520 rails later, these 7,040 studded
fishplates we've
Sources said the accident took place in an area where the tracks were under repair and some
fishplates could have been left loose.
No hammers, spikes or spanners are needed except when fastening
fishplates - pieces of steel that bolt each rail to its neighbour.
Looking back when I was a stationmaster in the 1950s and 60s, every morning the head ganger would walk the line in both directions checking on the state of the rails and points with particular attention to the
fishplates, stretcher bars, points etc forming the whole of the permanent way in his section.He would report to me regarding the state of the track and this would be noted in the daily diary.Should there be any faults head office would be immediately advised through the control office and the necessary attention would be carried out by the gang who were all railwaymen.There was no sub contracting in those days and it seems to me that the system carried out today leaves a lot to be desired and there could be more accidents waiting to happen.
We have discovered missing bolts in rail
fishplates at Cannock in Staffordshire, Walsall and at Birmingham's New Street station.
They are able to trim up ballaat on the track, oil
fishplates and points and do weeding and a number of other light tasks formerly done by men.
At Hilsea, East Anglia, it was reported that the only thing holding the rail together at one point were the
fishplates.
Rail tracks are made up of a number of components: the rails themselves,
fishplates to connect lengths of rail together; sleepers to carry the rails; fastenings to hold the rails to the sleepers; and ballast to carry and support the sleepers.
Mahbubul Alam Bakshi, the head of Bangladesh Railway's northern region, said protesters had deliberately removed
fishplates that linked the rail tracks, denouncing the derailing as "an act of sabotage".
Bangladesh evaded a major train tragedy three days ago due to the promptness of an ordinary farmer who stopped a passenger train carrying some 500 passengers waving a piece of red cloths suddenly discovering that
fishplates of a railway track was removed by suspected protestors to enforce their blockade.
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fishplates were used to attach the rails to each other ?
